Boston bids farewell to the Olympic race – Los Angeles as the new Hamburger competitor
The favorite is out of the race: The Hamburg rivals Boston has increased its efforts to host the Summer Olympics in 2024 even before? official candidacy ended again. This was announced by the National Olympic Committee of the United States (USOC) said on Monday evening. “We were not in a position, the majority of people with enthusiasm for the job,” said Scott Blackmun, CEO of the USOC.
Previously, Boston Mayor Martin Walsh had already declared in a hastily called press conference, he will not sign a guarantee statement required to assume the costs and thus initiated the end of the application. “If this signature is required on this day, to keep going, then Boston is the application not pursue to Olympic and Paralympic Games,” said Walsh, “I will not sign anything, whereby the taxpayers’ money can be used for the costs of the Olympic Games . “
According to media reports, could now stand in Los Angeles for Boston. Since weeks, keep appropriate rumors. The Californian city had failed in the US pre-selection of Boston. Would for the German applicants Hamburg also Los Angeles to host the Games in 1932 and 1984, a very serious competitor.
Since the announcement of the candidacy Boston was actually as favorite. Mainly because the US media giant NBC has paid the IOC for the media rights to the Olympic $ 7.65 billion for the period 2021-2032 and the United States have aligned no more Summer Games since 1996 in Atlanta. This naturally also applies to a US-replacement candidate.
The entire Boston application was accompanied by bankruptcies, bad luck and mishaps. Especially on the question whether taxpayers’ money should be used for the Games, to bitter dispute between supporters and opponents of the games relaxing. According to the latest surveys, more than half of the population of Boston was against an application.
It was not until the end of May, there had been at the head of the bid committee a musical chairs. Steve Pagliuca, co-owner of the NBA Boston Celtics clubs should provide fresh air into the application. This, however, he apparently did not succeed.
In addition, the financial management of the Bid Committee for discontent in the population had seen. Especially as was announced that Boston2024 wanted to pay the former governor of the US state of Massachusetts, Deval Patrick, 7500 dollars a day for lobbying services to the IOC. Only after public pressure, the organizers had agreed to a referendum. This is now, however, no longer take place.
The candidacy period the International Olympic Committee is 15 September, on the award of the Summer Games in nine years in summer 2017 at the 130th IOC Congress in Lima, Peru decided. Besides Hamburg previously Paris, Rome and Budapest have officially deposited their interest.
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